Jamie Coleman is an accomplished trumpet player and has been playing with Nathaniel Catchpole, Alex James, John Edwards and Eddie Prévost, Guillaume Viltard and many other improvisers.

A founding member in the 80s of the rebel free improv trio The Recedents ( with Lol Coxhill and Roger Turner) Mike Cooper has been active since the early 60s in a multitude of diverse musical genre. Now in his 80s he returns to London for a few exclusive dates with his DNA ( Digital Nomadic Arts) set up -small portable digital devices for creative music making.

Viv Corringham (voice) is a US based British vocalist and sound artist, who has been described as “a vital force in improvised music since the late 1970s” (Corey Mwamba, BBC Radio 3).

She has been cutting her own distinctive path ranging across free improvisation, Greek Rembetika, soundscapes and spontaneously created songs. Work includes concerts, soundwalks, workshops and installations. She is a certified teacher of Deep Listening, having studied with composer Pauline Oliveros, and holds an MA in Sonic Art from Middlesex University, London.

Jo-anne Cox is a performer/composer, based in London and working across the UK. Her unique work to date spans across electronic, experimental, folk and contemporary classical music. Her natural creativity has led to many musical and cross art form collaborations, including working with Elinor Rowlands at Nottingham Contemporary Gallery. Jo-anne’s composition for piano and electric cello, Galwad y Mynydd, was featured on Siwan Rhys’ album, Letting the Light In, which reached #10 in the Specialist Classical charts in 2024.

Peter Cusack is a field recordist and musician with a long interest in the acoustic environment. He initiated the “Favourite Sounds Project” to discover what people find positive about everyday soundscapes and ‘Sounds from Dangerous Places’ that uses sonic journalism to investigate places of major environmental damage in such places as the Chernobyl exclusion zone, the Aral Sea, Central Asia and lignite mining areas in Europe.

Terry Day is a Multi-instrumentalist, Improvisation Pioneer, Song Writer, Tune-Smith, Lyricist, Poet, Painter, Conductor even.

Saxophonist, clarinettist, sonic artist and composer Reuben Derrick grew up in Christchurch, New Zealand. His doctoral dissertation ‘Acoustic illuminations: recorded space as soundscape composition’ (2014) draws upon field recording and improvisation.

Average Dragoons are a family improvising band: Ivor Ghikas (11) on trumpet and vocals, Hector Ghikas (17) on guitar and objects, Dusty (the dog - a medium-sized border collie / miniature poodle) on extended barking techniques, Claire Hope on piano and melodica, and Panos Ghikas on viola. They have performed sets at Noisemass Iklectik, The Vortex Christmas Special and Biggin Hall, Dover.

Born near London in 1957, Phil Durrant is a multi-instrumentalist improviser/composer/sound artist who currently performs solo and group concerts.